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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. -- Sophocles
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus. -- Hesiod
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. -- Aristophanes
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? -- Aeschylus
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. -- Mason Cooley
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. -- Socrates
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. -- Homer
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one. -- Homer
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now. -- Arthur C. Clarke
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. -- Plato
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. -- Homer
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. -- Homer
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. -- Ambrose Bierce
I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that. -- Epictetus
Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869. -- Ricky Gervais
We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead. -- Marianne Williamson
It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent -- Pittacus Lore
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth! -- Homer
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination. -- Richard Dawkins
When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens. -- Bill Maher
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very many humorous fantasy murder mysteries out there, especially not as intricately constructed as this one. Michael G. Munz takes a 'What if,' and runs with it like a toddler with Mom's smart phone. The guffaw-worthy throwaway bits will remind you of Douglas Adams. A very enjoyable read. -- Jody Lynn Nye
What in the name of Zeus's testicles? -- Darynda Jones
For know that no one is free, except Zeus. -- Aeschylus
The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus. -- Aeschylus
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. -- Euripides
Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat. -- Edith Hamilton
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. -- Homer
Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie. -- Rick Riordan
Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue. -- Sophocles
The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus. -- Tony Snow
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. -- Homer
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. -- Hesiod
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. -- Epictetus
Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like... -- Alan Green
Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus. -- Esther M. Friesner
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word. -- Aeschylus
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. -- Chuck Klosterman
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun. -- Archilochus
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. -- Sophocles
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. -- Heraclitus
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all. -- Aeschylus
Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus , a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed. -- Camille Paglia
Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus. -- Hilda Doolittle
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus. -- Jasper Fforde
Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them. -- Homer
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. -- Bob Dylan
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples. -- Hesiod
Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up! -- Rick Riordan
Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role. -- Luke Evans
Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men. -- Archilochus
If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god. -- Greta Christina
I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth? -- Louise GluÌ?ck
Q: Prove God doesn't exist. A: That's a tough one. Show me how it's done by proving Zeus and Apollo don't exist, and I'll use your method. -- Pat Condell
There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus -- Rick Riordan
I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe. -- Thomas Lewis
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt. -- Rick Riordan
Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely. -- Cleanthes
If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room. -- Richard Kadrey
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate. -- Aeschylus
O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good. -- Euripides
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus -- Hesiod
Oh Jesus, oh Zeus, oh Odin,Anya dropped the stick and started shaking. Oh shit.The bird spread out its wings, which slowly transformed back into arms and the rest followed until it was a man once more. -- Amy Kuivalainen
Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time"? -- Rick Riordan
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions. -- Epictetus
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So would you like to join me for something to eat? (Jericho)As long as it doesn't involve the entrails of demons, I might be persuaded. (Delphine)Demon entrails have no appeal for me, either. Zeus's are another matter. (Jericho) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The marriage of Zeus and Hera can hardly be reframed into a happy one and yet Hera is the Goddess of marriage. Hera and Zeus could be described as quarrelsome predecessors of the Holy Family. For the Greeks they symbolized marriage par excellence. -- Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig
She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that. -- Rick Riordan
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. -- Michio Kaku
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. -- George Saunders
One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure. -- Homer
I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further. -- Richard Dawkins
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods. -- Ptolemy
I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia -- Ptolemy
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain. -- Martin Luther
Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey! -- Daniel Handler
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